I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.

O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.